University of Hamburg
Research Training Group Collective Decision-Making
“[Populism is an] ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups, ‘the pure people’ versus ‘the corrupt elite’, and which argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people.”
Mudde (2004)
General Will
Homogenous People
Hypothesis 1: Governments including populist actors are more likely to amend or renew constitutions than non-populist governments.
Hypotheses 2: The quality of liberal democracy is decreased through governments including populist actors, independent of their host-ideology.
Hypotheses 3: The quality of participation is increased through constitutional changes under governments, independent of their ideology.
(Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser 2013, Blokker 2019, Bugaric 2019)
Hypotheses 4: The quality of egalitarianism is increased through constitutional changes under governments including a left-wing populist actor, and decreased under governments including a right-wing populist actor.
CCP
V-Dem
V-Party
Coverage
Continuous V-Party Measure
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Controls
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Interactions
Mixed-Effects Model
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Controls
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Interactions
Mixed-Effects Model
Populism does not always use constitutional changes to decrease democratic quality
Binary Measure
Not all results replicate with the binary coding of populists in government
Not significant but same direction
Not significant but different direction
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